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both o’ them were dead,” said yellow cloak.
    â€œMy father did that. All I did was drink. You wouldn’t kill a man for drinking.” Merrett remembered something then, something that might be the saving of him. “They say Lord Beric always gives a man a trial, that he won’t kill a man unless something’s proved against him. You can’t prove anything against me. The Red Wedding was my father’s work, and Ryman’s and Lord Bolton’s. Lothar rigged the tents to collapse and put the crossbowmen in the gallery with the musicians, Bastard Walder led the attack on the camps . . . they’re the ones you want, not me, I only drank some wine . . .
you have no witness
.”
    â€œAs it happens, you’re wrong there.” The singer turned to the hooded woman. “Milady?”
    The outlaws parted as she came forward, saying no word. When she lowered her hood, something tightened inside Merrett’s chest, and for a moment he could not breathe.
No. No, I saw her die. She was dead for a day and night before they stripped her naked and threw her body in the river. Raymund opened her throat from ear to ear. She was dead
.
    Her cloak and collar hid the gash his brother’s blade had made, but her face was even worse than he remembered. The flesh had gone pudding soft in the water and turned the color of curdled milk. Half her hair was gone and the rest had turned as white and brittle as a crone’s. Beneath her ravaged scalp, her face was shredded skin and black blood where she had raked herself with her nails. But her eyes were the most terrible thing. Her eyes saw him, and they hated.
    â€œShe don’t speak,” said the big man in the yellow cloak. “You bloody bastards cut her throat too deep for that. But she remembers.” He turned to the dead woman and said, “What do you say, m’lady? Was he part of it?”
    Lady Catelyn’s eyes never left him. She nodded.
    Merrett Frey opened his mouth to plead, but the noose choked off his words. His feet left the ground, the rope cutting deep into the soft flesh beneath his chin. Up into the air he jerked, kicking and twisting, up and up and up.

APPENDIX
    THE KINGS AND THEIR COURTS
    THE KING ON THE IRON THRONE
    JOFFREY BARATHEON, the First of His Name, a boy of thirteen years, the eldest son of King Robert I Baratheon and Queen Cersei of House Lannister,
    â€”his mother, QUEEN CERSEI, of House Lannister, Queen Regent and Protector of the Realm,
    â€”Cersei’s sworn swords:
    â€”SER OSFRYD KETTLEBLACK, younger brother to Ser Osmund Kettleblack of the Kingsguard,
    â€”SER OSNEY KETTLEBLACK, youngest brother of Ser Osmund and Ser Osfryd,
    â€”his sister, PRINCESS MYRCELLA, a girl of nine, a ward of Prince Doran Martell at Sunspear,
    â€”his brother, PRINCE TOMMEN, a boy of eight, next heir to the Iron Throne,
    â€”his grandfather, TYWIN LANNISTER, Lord of Casterly Rock, Warden of the West, and Hand of the King,
    â€”his uncles and cousins, paternal,
    â€”his father’s brother, STANNIS BARATHEON, rebel Lord of Dragonstone, styling himself King Stannis the First,
    â€”Stannis’s daughter, SHIREEN, a girl of eleven,
    â€”his father’s brother, {RENLY BARATHEON}, rebel Lord of Storm’s End, murdered in the midst of his army,
    â€”his grandmother’s brother, SER ELDON ESTERMONT,
    â€”Ser Eldon’s son, SER AEMON ESTERMONT,
    â€”Ser Aemon’s son, SER ALYN ESTERMONT,
    â€”his uncles and cousins, maternal,
    â€”his mother’s brother, SER JAIME LANNISTER, called THE KINGSLAYER, a captive at Riverrun,
    â€”his mother’s brother, TYRION LANNISTER, called THE IMP, a dwarf, wounded in the Battle of the Blackwater,
    â€”Tyrion’s squire, PODRICK PAYNE,
    â€”Tyrion’s captain of guards, SER BRONN OF THE BLACKWATER, a former sellsword,
    â€”Tyrion’s concubine, SHAE, a camp follower now serving as bedmaid to Lollys Stokeworth,
    â€”his grandfather’s brother, SER KEVAN LANNISTER,
    â€”Ser Kevan’s son, SER LANCEL LANNISTER, formerly squire to King Robert, wounded in the Battle of the Blackwater, near death,
    â€”his grandfather’s brother, {TYGETT LANNISTER}, died of a pox,
    â€”Tygett’s son, TYREK LANNISTER, a squire, missing since the great riot,
    â€”Tyrek’s infant wife, LADY ERMESANDE HAYFORD,
    â€”his baseborn siblings, King Robert’s bastards:
    â€”MYA STONE, a maid of nineteen,